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Inured as we ve become societally to associating professional sports with bravado and bombast, we re genuinely taken aback when someone therein downplays his or her own athletic attributes. In pro football, it s uncharacteristically rare, if not unheard of, for skill position players to do so.
Yet, listen to
Nelson Agholor recount his ascent from shoeless immigrant child unfamiliar with English to polished National Football League wide receiver. He doesn t consider himself naturally gifted, even when he was a kid or a five-star recruit in high school. No. Not at all. If anything, the thing I had going for me at that age was my mind. I feel like I became a cerebral athlete. I studied other people and tried to emulate them. Still, to this day, I d say my talent is my mind… Obviously, God gives us all different gifts. The gift he gave me was to think about ways to get better and ways to work hard and then to execute.